Informační zdroje v zoologii Stano Pekár
Simple
• Google Lycos Altavista• Google, Lycos, Altavista
• Yahoo, Seznam, Ask
lt i twww lycos com www.altavista.comwww.lycos.com
Meta browsers
www.yahoo.comwww.excite.com
Meta-browsers
• Web Crawler, Metacrawler
- includes Google, Yahoo, Bing, Ask, Live Searchg g
www.metacrawler.com
www.webcrawler.com
Scientific
• Google Scholar, SCIRUS
www.scirus.comscholar.google.com
- browses through scientific publications, webpages, “grey”
literature, etc.
Search using:
- author’s name in citation marks (“d knuth”)author s name in citation marks ( d knuth )
- title of paper in citation marks
- key words from the title
- subject area
AND to find resources including both keywords
OR to find resources including only the first or the second
keyword
NOT t fi d i l di th fi t b t t th dNOT to find resources including the first but not the second
keyword
domain:cz to find pages of the specified domain (uk, com)
host: www.shopping.com to find pages on specified server
link: www.myway.com to find pages that includes links to
specified server
titl t t t fi d ith th k d i th titltitle: text to find pages with the keyword in the title
url: text to find pages with the keyword in the URL address
Thomson-Reuters (Ovid Technologies)Thomson Reuters (Ovid Technologies)
• Zoological Records - zoological sciences (4 500 periodicals)
1978 2009 b t t i 20011978-2009, abstracts since 2001
• Biological Abstracts - biological sciences (4 000 periodicals)
1987 20091987-2009
• MedLine - microbiology, medicine, pharmacology, biophysics,
social sciences biotechnology (3 500 periodicals) since 1966social sciences, biotechnology (3 500 periodicals) since 1966
• EMBASE - medical and pharmacological sciences (5 000
periodicals) since 1974p )
• GeoBase - geography, ecology, geology, oceanography (2 000
periodicals) since 1980p )
• CAB Abstracts - agriculture sciences (6 000 periodicals)
• Current Contents - multiscientific (8 000 periodicals)
• Web of Science - multiscientific (8 000 periodicals) since 1900
Cambridge Scientific Abstracts: (6 000 periodicals)
• BioOne - biological sciences, (200 periodicals), since 1998
• Biotechnology Research Abstracts - since 1993
• Conference Papers Index - since 1982
• Natural Sciences - since 1997
Elsevier
• SCOPUS - multiscientific (16 000 periodicals) since 1998• SCOPUS - multiscientific (16 000 periodicals) since 1998
!access only with an IP address of MU!
1. Prepare key-words (author names, organism names, subjects)
- from other papers
2. Select database
- check with Thesaurus
3. Search
- using Boolean operators
4. Browse and mark references
5. Save references
6. Create your own database
mice gene including both keywords in a specified order
AND, OR, NOT
( ) to compose keywords and separate operators
(mouse OR mice) AND (gene OR pseudogene)
WITHIN X k d t d b X dWITHIN X keywords separated by X words
(mice WITHIN 3 gene)
NEAR keywords separated by less than 10 wordsNEAR keywords separated by less than 10 words
(mice NEAR gene)
BEFORE, keywords in specified order
AFTER (mice BEFORE gene, mice AFTER gene)
* replaces several letters in keywords
(patent* patent patents patented atd(patent*= patent, patents, patented, atd.,
behavi*r = behaviour, behavior)
?, ??, ??? replaces 1-3 letters in a keyword?, ??, ??? replaces 1 3 letters in a keyword
(fib?? = fiber, fibre)
Access via:
http://sci.muni.cz/uk/eiz/http://sci.muni.cz/uk/eiz/
Biological Abstracts
MedLine
Zoological Records
1. Find 10 references of scientific resources within scientific
databases. Use keywords such as:
- taxonomy, prey, behaviour/behavior, chromosome, evolution, competition,
predation, social, distribution, gene, activity, population, temperature,
development, dispersal, karyotype, behavioural ecology, communication, ...
2. Save references without abstract, key-words and descriptors.
3. Format references using a consistent style.